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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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'Who Killed The Electric Car?' Sequel Premieres Tonight (Video)

Green Car Reports

It's taken as gospel by many of the people who have seen it since its 2006 release, and there's no denying its influence. seemingly stung General Motors enough that the company unveiled the Chevrolet Volt concept in 2007 and then, startled by its popularity, decided to put the range-extended electric car into limited.

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2013 Cadillac XTS will feature first GM application of sensor fusion; milestone toward semi- and fully autonomous vehicles

Green Car Congress

General Motors is also developing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V, or vehicle-to-car V2C) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications (collectively, V2X) systems. This approach facilitates the deployment of new services without changes to the vehicle architecture, notes Donald Grimm, General Motors Research & Development Center.

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GM enters commercial agreement with and invests in Powermat, a personal device inductive charging company

Green Car Congress

General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012. Chevy Volt Powermat. Click to enlarge.

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The 60,000 Volt Question

Plug In Partners

23, 2007 -- General Motors Corp. Selling 60,000 hybrids would be a coup for GM, which lost nearly $2 billion in 2006. I f there is any doubt that GM is serious about PHEVs, here is one more story that indicates that they are indeed very serious.

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GM to pay $35M fine for ignition switch defect recall timing

Green Car Congress

Both in 2007 and again in 2010, NHTSA reviewed data related to the non-deployment of airbags in certain Chevy Cobalt models but each time, determined that it lacked the data necessary to open a formal investigation.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. 10/31/07 [General Motors Corp.

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